I Remember Why
8th August 2006 by
Review: Farewell Kingdom, Dream’s End Come True and The Lie Lay Land — World’s End Girlfriend.
Japanese post–rock. Sounds a bit like Venetian Snares meets 90s demo scene music meets, er, whoever did the music for Taito’s platform games in the 80s. Or like a giant made out of synthesizers beating a video arcade to death as a string quartet plays for it a requiem. Or like a lullaby.
It’s pretty amazing.
Noble got this all the way from Tokyo in a week without even one of the little CD–holding tabs breaking off, joining the ranks of excellent foreigners showing up British record shops who often can’t manage the same from just down the road in less than a month without breaking all of them.
